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Custom user authentication in Django, with tests

In the previous part, we created a custom user model in Django. In this part, I'd like to show how to roll custom authentication. Neither custom user model nor custom authentication are required for the granular role-based access control, but I'd like this series to be a complete tour of authentication and authorization in Django. The code accompanying the series can be found in GitHub. So let's get started!

Getting started with Apache Beam for distributed data processing

MapReduce was revolutionary when it was first published in 2004. It provided a programming model for batch processing datasets with terabytes of data. MapReduce was built on three seemingly simple phases: map, sort, and reduce. It used the general-purpose HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) file system for I/O and was therefore capable of processing almost any kind of data.